Episode 2: Dano Wall
Script:
Welcome to episode 2 of “Hero of the Week” For the week ending Sunday, May 25, 2019. I’m Dru Freeman
This week it’s all about the money. And Dano Wall a New York Designer who was less than thrilled with the news that the Harriet Tubman Twenty-Dollar Bill was getting effectively postponed for the foreseeable future. Treasury chief Mnuchin has slipped the bill change from 2020 to 2028.
When Dano heard that the bill was postponed he tweeted, “We’ll see about that” and started making more of his rubber stamps. The Tubman stamp is a 3d printed rubber stamp that uses her original portrait from Auburn, NY in 1868 found at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The stamp features a circular notch to allow lining it up on the currently available twenty-dollar bills to overlay Tubman’s portrait and name over Jackson.
Concerning the matter; First, the current executive in chief had honored Jackson’s place on American currency despite Jackson’s staunch Anti-African American stances on abolition and slavery as well as being the first populist President and the president responsible for the 1830 indian Removal act leading to the Trail of tears.
Second he dishonored Tubman referring to the bill change as “Pure political correctness” and in a quotation to Omarosa Manigault Newman by saying, “You want me to put that face on a twenty-dollar bill.
The stamps are available routinely from the artist’s Etsy Store and do sell out quickly. but the artist recommends that you download the 3d printer file for yourself and create as many as you wish for friends, families, and by my opinion foes.
Wall’s goal is to see at least 5% of the twenty dollar bills currently in circulation to get stamped with Tubman’s likeness in the hopes of opening conversation on this issue.
When asked if the stamped served to deface the bill, Wall told the Washington Post that he’s been careful not to violate the U.S. Law. “The basic gist of it is you can’t render a bill illegible.: He went on to add, “You can’t cover any text or numbers or anything to serve as an advertisement… Anything outside of that — If the bill is still fit for circulation — is fine. You can write on it and mark it in any way.”
Defacement is prohibited under federal law and a person can be fined and/or imprisoned for up to 6 months.
With this artistic and constructive touch of anarchism, We are proud and honored to name Dano Wall our Hero of the week.
Hero of the Week is produced and written by Dru Freeman. If you know of someone you feel deserves to be our hero of the week, let us know on twitter at @PodcastDru. This show is copyrighted 2019 by A “Dru” Freeman
Links:
https://www.thingiverse.com/danowall/about